posted at 8:31 pm on December 10, 2013 by Allahpundit

I’m honestly surprised. The last three national polls before this one showed his job approval rebounding somewhat from the depths of November. He’s still bleeding politically from ObamaCare, but perceptions that the website has at least improved a little seem to have slowed it for awhile. And last Friday’s jobs report was downright upbeat by the standards of Obamanomics. You’d think The One would, at last, have a little good news in store for him from Quinnipiac.

Nope. This is a bloodbath.

President Barack Obama’s job approval among American voters drops to a new low, a negative 38 – 57 percent, as the outlook for Democrats running for Congress and the U.S. Senate fades also, according to a national poll released today. He even gets a negative 41 – 49 percent among voters 18 to 29 years old and a lackluster 50 – 43 percent approval among Hispanic voters.

The president’s job approval compares to a negative 39 – 54 percent score in a November 12 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. ..

American voters say 41 – 38 percent that they would vote for a Republican over a Democrat for the U.S. House of Representatives, the first time this year the Democrats come up on the short end of this generic ballot. Independent voters back Republican candidates 41 – 28 percent. Voters also say 47 – 42 percent that they would like to see Republicans gain control of the U.S. Senate and the House. Independent voters go Republican 50 – 35 percent for each.

Democrats led by nine on the generic ballot in October thanks to a swell of upset at the GOP over the shutdown. Two months later, Quinnipiac’s seeing the same sort of reversal that made Charlie Cook’s jaw drop a few days ago. None of that springs from any love for the GOP, either: Approval of congressional Republicans is at 19/74 versus 27/67 for congressional Dems, and yet when people were asked which party they’d rather see win the House and Senate respectively, the GOP wins by five points on each score. Obama’s simply killing the Democrats. Even on the question of whether he cares about their needs and problems, a metric where he usually cleans up, he’s at 48/49. And here’s what happens when you ask whether he’s honest and trustworthy. Bambi doesn’t seem bambi-ish after lying egregiously about whether people could keep their plans or not:

That too is a new low for him; two months ago, he was at 54/41. One thing to pay attention to in that graphic, though, is the gender gap. There’s an eyepopping split among men and women on various questioned related to O in this poll, starting with job approval. With women, he’s at -5; with men, he’s at … -33. The spread’s even wider on the “honest and trustworthy” question. See now why Democrats are hyperventilating over losing white women? If his numbers with women start to slide from mild disapproval to robust disapproval, he’ll be in Dubya territory poll-wise. And on some key questions, they’re already starting to trend that way:

Being below 40 percent with women on health care is … not where he wants to be. In fact, one other interesting metric where the gender gap is noticeably smaller is when people are asked what they think of his handling of Iran, specifically in terms of the Geneva agreement. I think this says more about public distrust of Iran than it does about distrust of O, but if the nuke negotiations fall apart, his overall numbers with women might start to look more like they do in the second table here:

When you ask the public whether Obama’s administration is doing a competent job of running the government, the split right now is … 40/56. A lot goes into that, but sour views of health care and the Iran deal are two big parts. Exit question: Follow the link up top and you’ll see that Obama’s numbers on the economy are also gruesome, notwithstanding the fact that last week’s jobs report was better than usual. Why is that? Is it just that the poll was conducted shortly before and then after the announcement, so that the full impact of the report hadn’t been priced into the numbers yet? Or have people given up on Obama to the point where even comparatively good news doesn’t register at this point?

Not to worry, little George Bush and the RINO’s will try to find a way to keep the fix in for the Two Party Evil Money Cult, after all little Bush got a free ride to the Mandala circus and ya know they got together and had a good laugh on who is paying for the ride and drinks.

U.S.

Now the problem is how to lie that CO2 a plant food is a danger and we tax payer ID’s paying the tab to re-fill the pig trough of “ear mark” money for them all to wallow in.

Hard to believe that AP believes the economic reports this government puts out. But there he is spouting it as if false propaganda like the BLS numbers have any real meaning, particularly at moments when Obama definitely needs a save somewhere, anywhere!

Land is the perfect candidate for a state like MI. I’m surprised that the Senate races haven’t been covered much on the site. Granted it’s still a year away, but if there are posts about 2016, why not 2014?

The latest poll has Cotton up by 7 over Pryor. It is a Republican pollster, but the previous poll had Pryor up by 2.

and the RINOs are moving in for the final attack…increase spending in 2014 and 15 by 70B.

According to news reports and conversations with congressional staffers familiar with the ongoing talks, the Murray/Ryan plan currently under discussion would increase the discretionary spending limits for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 by nearly $70 billion. The 2014 and 2015 limits would be set in the neighborhood of $1.015 trillion, a $48 billion increase over the current 2014 cap of $967 billion and a $20 billion increase over the current 2015 cap of $995 billion. Congressional Democrats had initially demanded $1.058 trillion in 2014 spending, an amount that would’ve matched 2014 spending if sequestration didn’t exist.

now that should show barry who’s Boss. /s

the real stupid part is that I was listening to CNN and they were all wondering what barry would say….as if Murray isn’t going to move an inch without barry’s pre-approval.

so the barry/boehner team is on board…that mean old austerity just isn’t what this county needs.

The upside to this is Obama is damaged goods and is beyond recovery,the trust of Americans in him will never return.The downside is the danger this petty little tyrant can do with the time he has left.

That this horrible man enjoys a 40% approval rating just shows me how stupid almost half this country is.

neyney on December 10, 2013 at 8:35 PM

And why do you think that Obama will be lower than 35% in worst case scenario? The democrat base which is mainly made of parasites is much more loyal to him and their party than the Republican base is loyal to the Republican party or a Republican President…

I think there’s a great deal of disillusionment on the LEFT. Ben Affleck came out and said that fund raising for the Democrats “made me feel gross”. Ben Affleck, once of the LEFTISTS of the LEFTISTS admits to being disillusioned with politics…and not just disillusioned… but soiled by it. He seems to be saying that he still believes in the underlying ideology of the LEFT… he just can’t stomach the politicians, the donors, or the political process.

The hype on Obama was some of the most overblown I’ve ever seen. Even normal performance over the course of eight years was going to certainly leave many in the Democrats base disillusioned and disgruntled. Abject failure on every issue dear to the LEFT’S collective hearts, being caught flatly lying, and then cynically lying about lying has caused his personal numbers to decline sharply.

The carry over to the rest of the Democrat field is well earned. These are career politicians who have consistently shown themselves to be more interested in currying their own career, and catering to the desires of the donors and the party, than looking after the needs of their base… particularly on issues related to employment.

Top it all off with an electorate that, for a number of reasons, have had a crash course in politics and reality, and on a steep learning curve to boot.

We’re only seeing the first wave of disillusionment in the Left’s base. There are three more years. There’s more to come.

His approval among whites is 26% and disapproval is 70% and you wonder why the left wing elite and activists base which is 95% made of white liberals is very angry and is going crazier than usual… They do not give a f*** if Shaniqua and Malik support Obama 100%, in their daily lives they do not want to be anywhere near Shaniqua and Malik, they only need them on elections day and after that they need to get the f*** back to their ghettos far away from where the white liberals live and wait for the tax payers check to be sent to them as a reward for their vote… What the white liberals want more than anything else is win the white vote and they are losing the white vote at much worse percentage than ever…

[…] They do not give a f*** if Shaniqua and Malik support Obama 100%, in their daily lives they do not want to be anywhere near Shaniqua and Malik, they only need them on elections day and after that they need to get the f*** back to their ghettos far away from where the white liberals live[…]
mnjg on December 10, 2013 at 9:05 PM

So true so true, I wish these americans would open their eyes and see the truth as it stares right back at them!

The tragedy here is that the people who are most used by the white liberals i.e. blacks do not give a damn and as long as the vast majority of them are living either 100% or to a very large degree on the tax payers check that the liberals are giving them then they are going to vote for the liberals… Financial slavery is enjoyed by those who are enslaved by it…

Dems win because they’re partisan. Period. Their ideology is their faith whether they admit it or not.

VibrioCocci on December 10, 2013 at 8:50 PM

Yes the most powerful thing that the democrat have electorally is that their base is much loyal to them than the Republican base is loyal to their party… You rarely hear democrats talking about a DINO (democrat in name only) but for many in the base at least half of the Republican party is RINO… Having said that winning elections does not mean that they can govern and that is because of utter incompetence of democrat leaders just check out Obama the most incompetent President in history…

Shaniqua and Malik ain’t smart enough to realize that Jose and maria have passed them by.

cozmo on December 10, 2013 at 9:14 PM

Eventually they are going to lose a lot of Jose’s and Maria’s… Not necessarily a majority of them but they are going to lose a substantial majority… A lot of Jose’s and Maria’s are not going to vote for the same party that Shaniqua and Malik are voting for…

Well said, and more to come indeed. And, why it’s imperative we retard the country’s meltdown by winning the Senate (and keeping the House). Even then, there is much more damage Obama can do, but nothing like what he can do with a Senate already throwing out the filibuster.

The reason why reported unemployment fell from 10.0% in October 2009 to 7.0% in November 2013 was NOT because people moved from unemployed to employed (while unemployment dropped three points, employment only rose 0.1, one-tenth of a point!)

Ther reason unemployment fell was people moved from unemployed to “not in labor force” (Labor Force Participation Rate dropped two points from 65% to 63%). MILLIONS gave up hope of finding a job.

Anyone who is upbeat about last Friday’s jobs report doesn’t understand that real employment now is just as low as it was 4 years ago. There has been NO recovery.

Of course we screamed bloody murder about O’care, and the MSM called us “tea-baggers”. We screamed about the lawlessness of the Cabal running the executive branch, the MSM calls us uninformed rubes and the judiciary says we have no “standing”. A Citizen of the U.S.A. does not have “standing” to “redress” issues with the Rulers in D.C.?

Well, just watch us Standing at the polls in 2014. Watch, Learn, and Fear…because we are Awake.

Some plans sold on the online insurance exchanges, for instance, don’t cover key medications for HIV, or they require patients to pay as much as 50 percent of the cost per prescription in co-insurance — sometimes more than $1,000 a month.

If one incumbent is reelected that voted for OCare, then all is lost. This is the most transparent issue that is seemingly affecting everyone. Yet we know that many of those freaks will get elected again. These voters are masochists with no bounds.

As a woman, even I have often wished we could repeal women’s right to vote. I cannot explain why so many of my gender are so stupid.

idalily on December 10, 2013 at 9:42 PM

It’s funny, most of the conservative women I know and a few apoliticals say the same thing about repeal of the vote. Women know women much better than men do, the understatement of all time, but I’d be curious as to what would happen if that issue were ever put to a vote in this day and age.

If one incumbent is reelected that voted for OCare, then all is lost. This is the most transparent issue that is seemingly affecting everyone. Yet we know that many of those freaks will get elected again. These voters are masochists with no bounds.

LaughterJones on December 10, 2013 at 9:42 PM

Look, Pelosi is not going to get booted. It is not failure if a few loons get re-elected. Focus on the big picture. Take the Senate, keep the house. Defund Obamacare or repeal and replace it. It is an unworkable law and will keep getting worse with time. It can’t be fixed.

As a woman, even I have often wished we could repeal women’s right to vote. I cannot explain why so many of my gender are so stupid.

I have many wonderful conservative female friends who are sharp as tacks. Remember the breakdown: married women are conservative, and single women vote liberal. The Tea Party is very much a woman’s organization.

1. It takes a good, faithful man to make a good husband. Many women love romance and fidelity. So there’s something of a role for men to play here. If your man is a jerk, you become a liberal woman pretty quickly.

2. If a man finds himself at a college or a church with too many women vying for power and control, he needs to run, not walk away as fast as he can. Join churches where only men are allowed to lead. This provides a great example for boys, and takes some pressure and stress off of women, although they still have plenty to do.

3. Women have been portrayed in our feminist culture as always being weak, helpless, yet good and in the right, although this is slowly changing. (Women have been portrayed like this in literature for a long time, pre-feminism). The greatest evils are perpetrated by women and we somehow call it good. It’s not. Women do evil things. It’s important to teach our daughters the hard truths about right and wrong.

4. As girls and young women we were quickly shunned if we engaged in any form of debate or political talk. It’s not seen as a proper thing for a lady to discuss. Yet “iron sharpens iron.” We’re dull-witted because we need to be LIKED and women don’t like women who talk politics. I think this, too, can change. I’m privileged to be in a huge homeschooling community where most women are independent, strong-willed, and conservative. Some younger women who were homeschooled themselves are especially not shy about discussing anything under the sun. They haven’t been conditioned by peer pressure to think it’s uncool. My daughter loves her homeschooling classes with Socratic discussions. They take logic classes and have to defend arguments. These young ladies will knock your socks off someday … I wish there were more of them.

5. I always frame my conservative arguments on facebook in words of compassion and empathy for life, freedom, and justice. For example, wind farms killing eagles — I was all over that one. Talk about ethanol with a picture of a starving child …. put up a video of a “common core” parent getting beat up …. talk about excellence in education. Complain about some Grandma or kid getting abused by the TSA. When my friend had Obamacare sticker shock I was right there in empathy. Speak softly to women but carry a big stick and whack them over the head with a new way of looking at things.

Exit question: Follow the link up top and you’ll see that Obama’s numbers on the economy are also gruesome, notwithstanding the fact that last week’s jobs report was better than usual. Why is that? Is it just that the poll was conducted shortly before and then after the announcement, so that the full impact of the report hadn’t been priced into the numbers yet? Or have people given up on Obama to the point where even comparatively good news doesn’t register at this point?

Exit Answer; Anyone who would deliberately lie to bait and switch to get a law passed, Spy on average citizens, use the most feared branch of government to silence opposition, AND cook the books on unemployment to get re-elected – Just Might Continue to do so after being elected.

Wen I clicked on he demographic summary at the bottom of the page at the Qunipac site, to y’know,, check the SAMPLE, I get a 404 error.

From December 3 – 9, Quinnipiac University surveyed 2,692 registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 1.9 percentage points. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones.

I want he sample. The current polls all over sample libs by at least 12 points and I have seen two that sampled over 50% liberals just to get the headline number for Obama’s approval close to or just at 40%.

Yes the most powerful thing that the democrat have electorally is that their base is much loyal to them than the Republican base is loyal to their party… You rarely hear democrats talking about a DINO (democrat in name only) but for many in the base at least half of the Republican party is RINO… Having said that winning elections does not mean that they can govern and that is because of utter incompetence of democrat leaders just check out Obama the most incompetent President in history…

mnjg on December 10, 2013 at 9:18 PM

To go along with this…

The Democrat Party is relatively loyal to their base, unlike the moderate RINO leaders who pander to the base and then act like Democrats once elected (how many times must we melt the DC phone lines to stop our own party from passing the Democrat’s amnesty?).

The Democrat Party states that Republicans are enemies strongly and often in the press. The Republican moderate elites agree that the Republican Party is clueless, but will step up efforts to work with their “friends” across the aisle. They also repudiate those “radicals” like Cruz who “shut down the government” (even though it was the Democrats), and will work to prevent other “radicals” (i.e. their base) from ever pulling an embarrassing stunt like that again. (After all, who wants anyone who will stand on principles over party?)

All of these polls need to be reviewed within the context of all the false data published by the Obama regime and all the propaganda published by them, like the photos they released of Obama in Mandella’s prison cell and the photos of ObaMAO at Pearl Harbor, considered together with the use of government agencies used to attack political adversaries.

Land is the perfect candidate for a state like MI. I’m surprised that the Senate races haven’t been covered much on the site. Granted it’s still a year away, but if there are posts about 2016, why not 2014?

The latest poll has Cotton up by 7 over Pryor. It is a Republican pollster, but the previous poll had Pryor up by 2.

GOPRanknFile on December 10, 2013 at 8:43 PM

I received a fund-raising letter from the Land campaign in Michigan, even though I live out of state, and she has already raised twice as much money as Peters. Michigan elected a Republican Governor in 2012, so that Land might have a real opportunity there. Land’s fund-raising letter did not mention her position on the bankruptcy of Detroit, which could become a huge issue in the Michigan Senate race, after Obama’s crowing about how GM has paid back its debt to the Federal Government (minus $10 billion, which Obama conveniently “forgot” to mention).